08 Building a pathway of your own

Date: 
Saturday, May 14, 2022 - 14:00 to 15:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs

Class syllabus: 

Opening:
"If you were a taiko drum, what would you be?"

breathing exercise
a different tai chi exercise
-- moving through space
-- arm swinging side to side like a "den den Daiko"
-- gradually shifting weight from right foot to left foot, and travel through space while maintaining the arm swing

2 mins drum roll
-- Left handed stance
-- Right handed stance

finding the just right range of motion

Grounding practice with finding the downbeat
Right Hand -- (1) 2 (3) 4 (5) 6 (7) 8
Right Hand -- (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Right + Left -- (1) (2) n (3) (4) n (5) (6) n (7) (8) n
(don doko don doko don doko don doko)

don doko don doko don doko don don

Review "su don su don su don don"

Final Video of all four patterns together
https://youtu.be/thYcCt899LA

Teacher(s): 
Yeeman Mui
Attendance: 
Chris Phua
Shay Suban
Karen Chan
Kim Lan Vo
Kenneth Raymond
Cora Raymond
Images: 

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Sat, April 09, 2022 02 Texture and Allignment
Sat, April 16, 2022 03 Range of Motion
Sat, April 23, 2022 04 Posture and Jellyfish
Sat, April 30, 2022 05 Core Activation
Sat, May 07, 2022 06 Tension and Release
Sat, May 14, 2022 08 Building a pathway of your own
Sat, May 14, 2022 07 Grounding through Rhythm - Finding the Groove
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